RMNP day hike

Wanderlust073

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The wife and I drove up to the park yesterday and did a short hike followed by a drive over Old Fall River road. Beautiful day with most of the cursed wildfire smoke seeming to have blown somewhere else for once.

We started at Bear Lake and walked a few miles up to Emerald Lake. The trail takes you past a series of small alpine lakes with Hallet and Flattop growing larger in the background as you climb up.

This is Nymph Lake, which is really more of a pond.

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Hallet Peak looming over the outflow from Dream Lake:

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And Dream Lake:

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Emerald Lake was littered with people so it wasn't possible to get a shot worth keeping.

Not a bad hike though it was the usual Bear Lake zoo by the time we got back down to the lot. Soooo many people, but nearly all being well behaved.

Nearly all:

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Double "LIKE" for the tag to Geico.
 
Great photos... and GREAT idea on the Geico tag... hopefully they stay in IOWA.
 
Thanks for sharing!
Definitely frustrating that people can litter in the first place, but cigarettes?! Come on now, like you said, do we need anymore wildfires? Props for letting Geico know. :twothumbs:
 
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